International Updates

24 December 2017: Philip Morris International’s $1 billion fund to help stop smoking is being debated and examined by academics and health leaders worldwide. New Delhi: Philip Morris International is attempting to distribute nearly $1 billion for […]

22 December 2017: Part 4: Philip Morris executives are traversing the globe to lobby health authorities on the benefits of iQOS, the little machine the tobacco giant says is key to the company’s future. The […]

20 December 2017: Former employees and contractors have detailed irregularities in the clinical experiments that underpin Philip Morris International’s application to the FDA for approval of its iQOS smoking device. The agency is expected to […]

15 December 2017: This follows The Wire‘s exclusive story this week about Derek Yach targeting health leaders with grant money from his foundation, which is funded by the tobacco industry. New Delhi: When Derek Yach, president of […]

24 November 2017: The biggest tobacco companies in the United States will start running prime-time television commercials and full-page ads in national newspapers on Sunday — but the campaign is unlikely to spur enthusiasm for […]

20 October 2017: Scientists in the US have suggested vapers could be at greater risk of COPD and even conditions like psoriasis VAPING could cause the same deadly lung diseases as smoking, experts have warned. […]

15 October 2017: US court order forcing tobacco giants to air ads detailing dangers of smoking from November, should be mirrored in Australia say anti-smoking advocates Eminent public health experts have written to the Australian […]